We finally got on the road on Saturday around 9:30 am. The crossing into the US was a little strange with the customs agent asking us questions like: "How do you plan to finance this trip to Mexico?" He kept us there longer than usual and we were beginning to wonder what was happening. Eventually he just waved us through.
Not far from the crossing we hit something on the road and heard a pop..we knew right away that we were looking at changing the tire. No problem with that, but to get to the spare we had to remove everything from the car....and we were loaded!
We crawled into Havre with boxes on laps and junk all over Maggie. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies when we finally made it to the lube shop at Walmart. They were excellent, getting us on the road within an hour. We needed a new tire, but at that point we didn't care!
We were determined to make it to Helena and we were able to accomplish that - two hours later than planned.
